BBC News - 3D learning tools positive for pupils, says study: "A study of the impact of 3D in the classroom has found that it improves test results by an average of 17%.
Increasingly schools are using 3D projectors and learning resources to add a new dimension to learning."
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Friday 30 September 2011
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Dead Sea Scrolls online: a window on Judaism in the time of Jesus (VIDEO) - CSMonitor.com
Dead Sea Scrolls online: a window on Judaism in the time of Jesus (VIDEO) - CSMonitor.com: "An Israel Antiquities Authority employee photographs fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, at the IAA offices at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Monday. Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are available online. Israel's national museum and the international web giant Google are behind the project, which saw five scrolls go online Monday.
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Will Facebook start charging its users? - CSMonitor.com
Will Facebook start charging its users? - CSMonitor.com: "With all these new features, a rumor surfaced that Facebook would begin charging users for access to the site. The hearsay spread around Facebook for the past few days, leaping from one concerned user to another."
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The message said that Facebook will be "free if you copy and paste this message before midnight" and "please pass this message on if not your account will be deleted if you do not pay."
Facebook responded Monday on its official page: "A rumor on the internet caught our attention. We have no plans to charge for Facebook. It's free and always will be."
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Saudi woman sentenced to lashes days after women win right to vote - CSMonitor.com
Saudi woman sentenced to lashes days after women win right to vote - CSMonitor.com: King Abdullah’s decision this week to give Saudi Arabia’s women the right to vote and run as candidates was heralded by many as an important breakthrough. And it is – as much as it can be in a country that is much more of a monarchy than a democracy.
But yesterday’s sentencing of a woman who dared to drive, defying the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Islam that frowns on women behind the wheel, serves as a reminder of how far the kingdom has yet to go to reach gender equality.
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Making Yourself Indispensable - Harvard Business Review
Making Yourself Indispensable - Harvard Business Review: "It’s pretty easy and straightforward to improve on a weakness; you can get steady, measurable results through linear development—that is, by learning and practicing basic techniques. But the data from our decades of work with tens of thousands of executives all over the world has shown us that developing strengths is very different." Doing more of what you already do well yields only incremental improvement. To get appreciably better at it, you have to work on complementary skills—what we call nonlinear development. This has long been familiar to athletes as cross-training. A novice runner, for example, benefits from doing stretching exercises and running a few times a week, gradually increasing mileage to build up endurance and muscle memory. But an experienced marathoner won’t get significantly faster merely by running ever longer distances. To reach the next level, he needs to supplement that regimen by building up complementary skills through weight training, swimming, bicycling, interval training, yoga, and the like.
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Seeing Yourself as Others See You - Linda Hill & Kent Lineback - Harvard Business Review
Seeing Yourself as Others See You - Linda Hill & Kent Lineback - Harvard Business Review: This is an important topic. It's not about being liked or popular, as some assumed in reading our previous blog. It's about your ability to exert influence, which is your major task as a manager. If you don't know how your words and actions are perceived and understood, if you don't know if others trust you (and if they don't, why not), if you don't know what others want and expect from you, how can you exert the influence you want?
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The Perils of Thinking Like an Individual - Duncan Watts - Harvard Business Review
The Perils of Thinking Like an Individual - Duncan Watts - Harvard Business Review: ""Corporations are people, my friend." — Mitt Romney" Mitt Romney was recently ridiculed for defending low corporate tax rates with the argument that corporations should be viewed as people too. The statement came across as insensitive at a time when U.S. corporations are sitting on record profits and many ordinary people are struggling. But in using the language of individualism to talk about abstract collective entities like corporations, Romney's gaffe was pretty representative of how we reason about social and economic problems.
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Learn How to Think Different(ly) - Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen - Harvard Business Review
Learn How to Think Different(ly) - Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen - Harvard Business Review: In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA, the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators.
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We don't think so. Remember, it was Steve Jobs who jump-started the now-famous "Think Different" advertising campaign as a way to inspire consumers and recharge Apple's innovation efforts. It worked. Reflecting back on the campaign, Jobs said "The whole purpose of the 'Think Different' campaign was that people had forgotten what Apple stood for, including the employees." And the best way to tell people what Apple stood for was to tell them who the company's heroes were. The campaign reminded everyone — consumers and employees alike — that the "crazy ones...see things differently."
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Tuesday 27 September 2011
Namibia's 'miracle doctor' brings gift of sight - CNN.com
Namibia's 'miracle doctor' brings gift of sight - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- A mother who had never set her eyes on her baby, a poor villager who hadn't worked for years, an old man who had never seen his pension money -- these are just some of the thousands of blind Namibians whose lives have genuinely been transformed by the treatment of a woman who they call their "miracle doctor."
Dr. Helena Ndume, the head of the eye department at Namibia's largest hospital, Windhoek Central, has dedicated her life to help to restore sight in a country where tens of thousands of people are suffering needlessly from a condition that is curable."
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Dr. Helena Ndume, the head of the eye department at Namibia's largest hospital, Windhoek Central, has dedicated her life to help to restore sight in a country where tens of thousands of people are suffering needlessly from a condition that is curable."
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MySQL Malware Hack Cost Just $3,000 - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
MySQL Malware Hack Cost Just $3,000 - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek: "A security firm warned Monday that the website for downloading the popular MySQL open source relational database was infecting PCs via drive-by downloads.
Browsers that visited MySQL.com Monday were immediately injected with a JavaScript executable, which generated an iFrame that redirected to a website hosting the Black Hole crimeware exploit kit. "It exploits the visitor's browsing platform (the browser, the browser plugins like Adobe Flash, Adobe PDF, etc, Java, ...), and upon successful exploitation, permanently installs a piece of malware into the visitor's machine, without the visitor's knowledge"
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Browsers that visited MySQL.com Monday were immediately injected with a JavaScript executable, which generated an iFrame that redirected to a website hosting the Black Hole crimeware exploit kit. "It exploits the visitor's browsing platform (the browser, the browser plugins like Adobe Flash, Adobe PDF, etc, Java, ...), and upon successful exploitation, permanently installs a piece of malware into the visitor's machine, without the visitor's knowledge"
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Firefox 7 Has Arrived: Faster and Leaner — SiliconFilter
Firefox 7 Has Arrived: Faster and Leaner — SiliconFilter: "Mozilla today launched the latest stable version of Firefox. While some enterprise users are not very happy with the new, faster release schedule for Firefox (this is the fourth stable release this year), every new version has brought worthwhile advantages and Firefox 7 is no exception. This new version doesn’t just include many developer-centric enhancements, but if you are a regular Firefox user, you will be happy to hear that the new Firefox now uses significantly less memory. It’s also faster, especially if you tend to keep many tabs open at the same time.
Other speed enhancements include support for hardware-accelerating some HTML5 functions that will make games and other interactive graphics run faster and smoother."
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Other speed enhancements include support for hardware-accelerating some HTML5 functions that will make games and other interactive graphics run faster and smoother."
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Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe) — SiliconFilter
Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe) — SiliconFilter: "As Facebook moves to gather more and more data from its users, some people are getting rather anxious to know what Facebook really knows about them. Turns out, you can actually get Facebook to send you a CD with a PDF of all of your activities on the network – as long as you are in Europe. Europe vs. Facebook, a project started by Austrian privacy activist Mac Schrems, provides you with all the necessary steps to get access to your data. Requests for this data are routed through Facebook’s offices in Ireland, where a group of employees sifts through them, compiles these records and then sends them to the user."
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Monday 26 September 2011
Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy for a Ghost Town | Epicenter | Wired.com
Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy for a Ghost Town | Epicenter | Wired.com: "Google+ is opening up. The service that the enthusiastic and curious once begged to join is now open to anyone with a Google account, except those unfortunate Apps users (what’s up with that?). Users new and old also get to play with plenty of new desktop and mobile toys to remind them what was exciting about G+ in the first place. New APIs even let developers in on the fun."
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Size Doesn't Matter: The Question Is Whether Google Hurts Consumers | Techdirt
Size Doesn't Matter: The Question Is Whether Google Hurts Consumers | Techdirt: "With the Google Senate hearings yesterday, we noted that the inquisitors seemed to focus on the fact that Google is big as if that is a problem. Senator Franken specifically made that point: the "bigness" of Google is a concern. And, certainly, it is true that big companies tend to be more able to use their position to make decisions that are harmful to consumers. But that's a correlation, not a causal relationship -- and just because a company is big, doesn't mean it's automatically doing bad things. "
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9 A/B Tests Mere Marketing Mortals Can Use to Increase Leads
9 A/B Tests Mere Marketing Mortals Can Use to Increase Leads: "If you are not trying any A/B tests currently, you're probably doing yourself a disservice. (There, I said it!) Running A/B tests on your website is a killer way to learn how to generate more leads from the same amount of traffic."
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Harvest moon: Why does the moon look so big? - CSMonitor.com
Harvest moon: Why does the moon look so big? - CSMonitor.com: "The moon is seen behind decorative lights prepared for the upcoming Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival at a park in Hong Kong on Thursday."
The moon is seen behind decorative lights prepared for the upcoming Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival at a park in Hong Kong on Thursday.
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Space Photos of the Day: In Orbit - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Space Photos of the Day: In Orbit - The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com:
"The International Space Station is the most heavily shielded spacecraft ever. It can outmaneuver large debris and withstand the impact of smaller flotsam."
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NASA satellite falls on Canada as space junk. No one hurt. - CSMonitor.com
NASA satellite falls on Canada as space junk. No one hurt. - CSMonitor.com: The 6-ton UARS satellite — the biggest piece of space debris to fall from the sky since Sky Lab in 1979 — fell back to Earth early Saturday morning. Debris is reported to have been found near Calgary, Canada.
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was deployed by the space shuttle Discovery in 1991. Pieces of the satellite fell back to Earth Saturday morning, reportedly near Calgary, Canada.
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'via Blog this'From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later - CSMonitor.com
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later - CSMonitor.com: One year ago a malicious software program called Stuxnet exploded onto the world stage as the first publicly confirmed cyber superweapon – a digital guided missile that could emerge from cyber space to destroy a physical target in the real world.
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later - CSMonitor.com
From the man who discovered Stuxnet, dire warnings one year later - CSMonitor.com: One year ago a malicious software program called Stuxnet exploded onto the world stage as the first publicly confirmed cyber superweapon – a digital guided missile that could emerge from cyber space to destroy a physical target in the real world.
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/0922-ralph-langner-stuxnet/10745459-1-eng-US/0922-Ralph-Langner-stuxnet_full_380.jpg
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Nik Cubrilovic Blog - Logging out of Facebook is not enough
Nik Cubrilovic Blog - Logging out of Facebook is not enough: "Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing. The privacy concern here is that because you no longer have to explicitly opt-in to share an item, you may accidentally share a page or an event that you did not intend others to see."
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Saturday 24 September 2011
A Better Way To Pray By Andrew Wommack
Decades
ago, I was participating in an all-night prayer meeting bombarding the gates of
heaven. I remember beating the wall and yelling, “God, if You loved the people in
Arlington, Texas, half as much as I do, we’d have revival!” Immediately, my lightning-fast mind
realized that something was seriously wrong with my theology. What was I thinking? Visit
Most Amazing Time Lapse Video of Milky Way Ever Made. Seriously. | ShutterSalt
Most Amazing Time Lapse Video of Milky Way Ever Made. Seriously. | ShutterSalt: Sorgjerd writes, "The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide." I think the goal was accomplished! Music is by Ludovico Einaudi, the song is called "Nuvole bianche"
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BBC News - Brian Cox on Cern's baffling light-speed find
BBC News - Brian Cox on Cern's baffling light-speed find:
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Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists - because it seems subatomic particles have beaten the speed of light.
Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km (454 miles) away in Italy seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early.
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Friday 23 September 2011
Why Skipping Salt Is So Hard To Do : The Salt : NPR
Why Skipping Salt Is So Hard To Do : The Salt : NPR: We all know too much sodium in our diet can be bad for our health. It can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes and more.
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New Mac trojan found hidden in PDF file | ZDNet
New Mac trojan found hidden in PDF file | ZDNet: Summary: A newly discovered Mac vulnerability disguises itself as a PDF to trick users into opening it, which installs an Apache server on your Mac. Luckily it hasn’t been weaponized. Yet.
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Here I Am « UNCRUNCHED
Here I Am « UNCRUNCHED: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.
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F8 Announcements
F8 Announcements:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-everything-you-missed-at-f8-2011-9#timeline-is-your-new-digital-scrapbook-1#ixzz1YqT9gJwW
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Here's Every New Feature Coming Soon To Facebook
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-everything-you-missed-at-f8-2011-9#timeline-is-your-new-digital-scrapbook-1#ixzz1YqT9gJwW
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What Is Facebook Timeline?
What Is Facebook Timeline?: "Facebook's new Timeline view replaces your Profile page, and we love it.
It allows you to create a "digital scrapbook" of your entire life, giving others a much more accurate picture of who you are and what you care about.
What Facebook doesn't tell you is that Timeline is a contingency plan to make sure Facebook doesn't become irrelevant. Instead of just seeing a friend's recent activity, you'll see his or her entire life."
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It allows you to create a "digital scrapbook" of your entire life, giving others a much more accurate picture of who you are and what you care about.
What Facebook doesn't tell you is that Timeline is a contingency plan to make sure Facebook doesn't become irrelevant. Instead of just seeing a friend's recent activity, you'll see his or her entire life."
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Monday 12 September 2011
ebeyabhi - What Everybody Ought to Know About ASP: Medical Transcription - Wow - Check Out MY NEW BLO...
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ebeyabhi - What Everybody Ought to Know About ASP: Encourage Yourself with the Word of God! You alrea...
ebeyabhi - What Everybody Ought to Know About ASP: Encourage Yourself with the Word of God! You alrea...: Get rid of ADHD once for all and enjoy life like never before. ADHD or any disorder is only a condition that can be changed by Jesu...
Encourage Yourself with the Word of God! You already got it!
Get rid of ADHD once for all and enjoy life like never before.
ADHD or any disorder is only a condition that can be changed by Jesus. Everybody
wants to have more fun and less stress. Is this possible? Yes of course. Watch
the above video by Andrew Wommack from www.awmi.net.
Friday 9 September 2011
ebeyabhi - What Everybody Ought to Know About ASP: Get Rid of That ADD/ADHD Once and For All!
ebeyabhi - What Everybody Ought to Know About ASP: Get Rid of That ADD/ADHD Once and For All!: Hi Hello! Do you suffer from ADD/ADHD or learning disorder or any such coping up difficulties. Then just continue reading…
Thursday 8 September 2011
Get Rid of That ADD/ADHD Once and For All!
Hi Hello! Do you suffer from ADD/ADHD or learning disorder or any such coping up difficulties. Then just continue reading…
Some children with ADD/ADHD are hyperactive, but many others with attention problems are not. They may appear to be spacey and unmotivated. Kids with ADD/ADHD can never pay attention, but are often able to concentrate on activities they enjoy. Children with ADHD are more likely to have a parent with ADHD.
Children with ADHD are the most disliked youngsters in any crowd more so than children with depression, autism, or delinquent problems. Peer rejection is the best predictor in young children of later problems in school, including dropout and mental health problems. If ADHD children are the least liked and most rejected, “then it’s no wonder that ADHD doesn’t go away with puberty.
Effects of adult ADD/ADHD: If you are just discovering you have adult ADD/ADHD, chances are you suffered over the years with unrecognized problem. People may have labeled you lazy, stupid, because of your forgetfulness or difficulty completing tasks, and you may have begun to think of yourself in these negative terms as well. These difficulties can continue as time passes by, particularly if you do not help yourself right now.
ADD/ADHD that is unattended can cause problems in virtually every area of your life. People with ADHD are at increased risk for eating disorders. They stand a substantially greater risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence. Adolescent girls with ADHD frequently develop body-image dissatisfaction and may go through repeating cycles of binge eating and purging behaviors that are common in bulimia nervosa.
Positive side of ADD/ADHD: People with ADHD are very creative people. They are good at thinking about new and exciting things, and sometimes come up with new inventions. Experts believe that Thomas Edison had ADHD, who is one of the greatest inventors of all time. Many famous writers, artists, actors, and musicians also had ADHD, which helped them to be more creative. Some of your favorite musicians, actors, and sports stars probably have ADHD too, but just that they were successful in camouflaging themselves into normal people. The best known athlete with ADHD is Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps. Many kids and adults with ADHD have lots of energy and are fun to be with. They like to try new and exciting things. Many people are good at thinking fast and have a very good sense of humor. They are more creative than their healthy peers - adult ADHD sufferers are more creative.
So come to the positive side and use it. It is unwise to expect different results when we continue to do the same things. When we start thinking differently, then we will see Great Things happening.
Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
First Peter 2:24b says,
“By whose stripes ye were healed” (emphasis mine).
It’s already a done deal. It is actually incorrect to pray for healing. Instead, we should just receive the healing that the Lord has already provided. There is a difference between fighting to get healed and fighting because we have been healed. That difference is the difference between success and failure.
In Ephesians 2:8, Paul said, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves.”
We aren’t saved by grace alone or by faith alone; we are saved by a combination of the two. Actually, faith isn’t true biblical faith unless it’s used in receiving what God has already provided by grace.
Grace is what God has already done for us, independent of any worth or value on our part. If it’s tied to some goodness of ours, then it’s not true grace. God, by grace, has already provided everything we will ever need.
Our faith doesn’t move God. If God hasn’t already moved by His grace, then your faith can’t make Him. Faith simply appropriates what God has already provided by grace. If He’s already provided your needs by His grace, then faith is just your positive response to what He has already done—not something you do to get God to respond to you.
It takes a revelation from the Holy Spirit to make these truths become alive on the inside. Many people just can’t grasp them, because they are trapped in their five senses. If they can’t see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, or hear it, they don’t think it exists. Therefore, when you say they have already been healed, they check their physical bodies with their five senses, and if they don’t look or feel healed, they say they aren’t.
Many things exist that we can’t perceive by our physical senses. For instance, there are television signals wherever you are right now. You can’t see or hear them, but they are there. All you have to do is turn on a television set and tune it in to the signal, and then you will see and hear that they do exist.
The signal doesn’t begin broadcasting when you turn on your set; it was already being broadcast before you tuned in. That’s just when you began to receive. Likewise, the Lord has already blessed you with ALL things. Your life may not reflect that, but it’s not because the Lord hasn’t given; it’s because you haven’t received.
If your television set was to suddenly go blank, what would you do? Would you immediately contact the station and urge them to fix their transmitter? I don’t think so. You would check your set first. Yet in the spiritual realm, Christians are constantly going to the Lord and asking Him to fix His transmitter instead of asking Him to work on their receivers.
If they don’t see an instant manifestation of their healing, they just automatically suppose that God hasn’t healed them. They seldom take into account that maybe it’s their reception that’s the problem.
God wasn’t the variable in any instance! He answers all prayers instantly, but what the Lord had commanded in the spiritual realm, it was hindered from manifesting in the physical realm. Still, the answer had been given. The truth is that the Lord has already provided everything we will ever need, but His provision is in the spiritual realm.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John ).
God moves in the spiritual realm. Whether or not we see this manifest in the physical realm, what He has done in the spiritual realm is not dependent on His giving but on our receiving.
One of the variables is the devil’s opposition. However, people give the devil way too much credit. Some think that the devil never misses a trick. They aren’t sure about the Lord’s faithfulness, but they are absolutely convinced that the devil is always there to wreak havoc.
However, the devil blows it all the time. Sometimes the physical manifestation of what God has already done comes with little effort. Other times it can be delayed, not because God changes, but because the devil just misses it sometimes. Other times, there is major demonic opposition that hinders the manifestation of what God has commanded.
We have to know that God has already done His part and that any delay in our manifestation is not His fault. That will keep us in faith. Remember that faith is our positive response to what God has already done by grace.
This leads us to spiritual warfare. It’s a hot topic in the body of Christ, but in my opinion, spiritual warfare is the most abused teaching in the church today. It’s true that every one of us is involved in spiritual warfare. Denying the battle doesn’t stop it—it just guarantees that you will lose. But Satan’s only power is deception.
Satan doesn’t have any physical power or authority except what we give him when we yield to his lies. That’s a radical statement that is completely contrary to popular spiritual warfare teachings. Many proclaim that demonic powers are holding people in bondage and that the way to break through is to intercede, bind those powers, and set the people free. That’s not what God’s Word teaches.
The Bible says,
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John ).
Knowing the truth, not binding the devil in prayer, is what sets people free. The truth is You’ve Already Got It!
If you aren’t experiencing the abundance that you know the Lord wants you to have, then I can guarantee you that the revelation you need is You’ve Already Got It! This is the type of teaching that you will want and need to read or listen to again and again until it becomes true revelation knowledge to you.
This message will forever change the way you think about receiving the blessings of God. It’s the knowledge of this truth that will set you free to receive from God.
All these are truths from the Bible as taught by Andrew Wommack. Visit him at http://www.awmi.net/
As taught by him, the truth should sink into your subconscious mind completely to get this perfect manifestation of His power. In order to achieve this, I would like to offer some help with this – MindMaster. Try it out. I am 100% sure it will work.
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